Bill fold



March 4, 1930. J. A. ,CURRY BILLFOLD Filed larch 28. 1928 I I I l l I I I l I l i l I I.

Patented Mar. '4. 1930 was ' some A. cuaam'or noun-r mason, animus am 'aom) Application filed March The present invention relates to billfolds and* more particularly to a billfold constructed to permit the contents to be readily inspected. v 5,. Billfolds "are very widely used, and, generally speaking, their only shortcoming re- "sides in the fact that itis very diflicult to distinguish the denominations of the bills carried therein without at least partially remov-- ing the bills from the billfold; This often results in loss caused by giving a bill of a larger denomination than that 'intended' to be used. v The principal, object of my invention is to provide a billfold which is so constructed that the denomination of every bill carried therein canreadily be seen. -Another object of my invention is to soconstruct a billfold that the bills held thereby can be counted without the necessity of entirely opening the billfold; This permits the owner to inspect the contents of his billfold without the possibility of the bills being seen by-other persons.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a billfold which will contain a number of pocketsfor cards, tickets, coins and the like, allof which can be easily ex-. tracted.

invention will be apparent from the following specification and drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of my billfold, with the various'pockets spread open.

Fig. 2 is also a front view of the billfold, portions of 4 the front or inner wall being shown broken away, and

Fig. 3 is a view showing the billfold only partially opened.

In the drawing, wherein the numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 designates the front or inner wall of my billfold, and the numeral 6 indicates the back or outer wall. Both of these walls, and all of the other parts of the billfold, areformed of leather or other suitable material. Longitudinally extending dividing walls 7 and 8 are positioned between the front and rear walls, and all of these walls are stitched Still other objects and advantages of my,

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together at their bottom. and side edges by the usual stitchings 9.

The dividing wall-7 is stitched to the inner or front wall 5 by a vertical line of stitches 10, suitably spaced from the left-hand end'of the billfold (Fig. 1) to form a relatively large pocket 11 for bills and a smaller pocket 12 for small change. As shown in the drawing, the left-hand upper corner of the front wall 5 is cut away at 13, this cut-away portion extending over into the left-hand corner of the bill pocket llvsufliciently far to expose the denominations of the bills placed in that I pocket. The dividing wall or partition 8 is stitched to the dividing wall '7 by vertical st1tchings 14 and 15, respectively located near the left and right-hand ends of the billfold. Three pockets are thus formed between these two walls, a relatively small pocket 16 at the left-hand end of the billfold for holding post age stamps or the like, a pocket 17 for holding bills and a pocket 18 for holding a pocketk'mfe, fin ernail file, or any similar article. The leftand upper corner of the wall-7 is cut away at a point 19 adjacent the line of vertical stitching 10 which delimits the front ,bill ocket 11, with the result that the upper leftand corner of bills placed behind the partition wall 7 inthe bill pocket 17 will be ex osed to indicate their denominations. The le -hand corner of the dividing wall 8 is likewise cut away, but this cut-away portion only extends to the stitching 14, or suificiently far to indicate the denominations of billsplaced in bill pocket 20 between the dividing wall 8 and the rear wall 6 of the billfold.v The bill pocket 20 is formed by a v'erical line of stitching 21 which joins the dividing wall 8 and the rear wall 6 adjacent the right-hand end of the billfold (Fig. 1). This line of stitching forms a pocket 22 for cards at the right-hand end of the billfold. 7

It will be understood from the above description and from the drawing that I have provided a billfold in which the bill pockets. 11, 17 and 20 are in staggered relation so that the left-hand end of the pocket-17 projects past theleft-hand end of the ocket 11, and the left-hand end of the poo et 20 extends 1 past the left-hand end of the pocket 17. As a across the billfold, and the cut-away portions has been stated above, this permits the denomination figures in the upper left-handcorners of the bills to be seen. Each of the pockets 11, 17 and 20 can be used for bills of differentv denominations. The cut-away portion of the front or inner wall 5 preferably extends only about one-third of the distance in the dividing walls are of course graduated accordingly. This permits the denominations and number of bills carried in the bill fold tq j be determined without the necessity of en'- tirely unfolding the billfold. In fact, all of j the bills may be viewed when the billfold is not opened as far as is indicated in Fig. 3.

I claim:

1. A billfold including front and rear walls, longitudinal dividing walls extending the length of the bill fold, said walls being stitched to each other by vertical stitchings at spaced points intermediate their respective lengths to form pockets placed in oflset'arrangement. y

2. A11 open top bill fold comprising a plurality of longitudinall extending walls, adj acent walls being vertlcally stitched together intermediate their lengths and adjacent one end, the lines of stitching being progressively closer to that end from front to rear of the bill fold to form a series of pockets progressively offset relative to each other, the pockets of the series being of substantially the same length.

3. An open top bill fold comprising a plurality of longitudinal walls extending the length of the bill fold, adjacent walls being Vertically stitched together intermediate their lengths and adjacent one end, the lines of stitching being progressively closer to that 7 end from front to rear of the bill fold, said walls having cut out portions in correspondmg corners.

4. An open top bill fold comprising a plurality of longitudinal Walls extending the length of the bill fold, adjacent walls being vertically stitched together to form large and small pockets between said adjacent walls, the lines of stitching being progessively closer to one end of the bill fold from front to rear thereof.

5. A bill fold including front and rear A walls and a longitudinally extending dividmg Wall, said walls being stitched to each other by vertical stitchings intermediate their respective ends to provide a pair of relatively ofiset pockets substantially the same length, one behind the other, the front wall and the dividing wall being cut away at one corner.

- JOHN A. CURRY. 

